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Man, we have been having gloomy weather. Not good for anything but trying to craft, watching movies and getting your hair done.

I took Emma to my hairdresser today to get her hair washed and styled. We have done minimal washing since her surgery, and I wanted her to be able to relax while getting her hair cut. We only took off 1 1/2 inches and then LLLOOOONNNNGGG layered just little sections in the front. Looks wonderful! Wish I had my camera.

After that we went to Carl's Coney Island and met Grandma for a late lunch. We went to Owasso to Goodwill and then to Petsmart to run around. We bought orange sherbet on the way home. That was for Em. It takes wonderful, but too surgery for me.

It is supposed to clear up tomorrow, but with the weather the way it has been.. all you want to do is sleep. No motivation going on here!

Well, we are on day two and all is still well. I knew she would feel a little less "peppy" today, and I was right. She is not talking much today and just seems wiped out, and honestly I do not blame her. Her face is still swollen (okay her cheeks, due to her throat area being swollen) and she is still speaking kind of funny. She did not want to play as much today either. But, that could be because she does not feel well or because, well, it is just way too darn cold outside! It was 86 on Monday and the high today was 57. Only supposed to be around 49-51 tomorrow. Good thing my house faces north/south. We can sit on the back patio in the sun and be shielded from the wind. Everyone is having to cover up their plants and flowers.

Today was also a painful day for Mama! I had to go to the dentist. Let me say this, I would rather go to the gynecologist every day then have to go to the dentist. Bad experiences in my life. I was late to cut teeth as a baby, so late to lose my baby teeth. As a matter of fact by the time I was 12 they were pulling baby teeth out of my jaw to get my permanent teeth to come in. They pulled who knows how many and then... to put braces on me they pulled permanent teeth. It seems my jaw is too big for my teeth! I had braces put on my Dr. Tortia.. or as we kids kindly called him "Dr. Torture". You know the ones with the metal band that fits around your teeth that had to be hammered on! Oh yeah, those were the ones. Needless to say, my best experience is when I had to have my wisdom teeth surgically removed. It was the least painful. --- So anyway, I had a molar chip. Well due to more bad experiences that I will not go into.. that particular tooth has a big filling in it. So yes, I have to have a crown put on it. They filed my tooth down and put the temporary on it. OUCH... my tooth feels like someone beat it up! Youch! The temporary crown looks amazing, but gees my jaw hurts. What were they doing in there? Well, it was not that bad. My new dentist is great.. Dr. Hasty. He is young and really nice.

I did get around to crocheting a little bit today. Working on another square. Trying to finish it up tonight. We will see.

Now other, than some serious sewing, I will also be working on Little Lovelies Softie Swap . I need to come up with some good ideas. I already have one, but not sure if I will use it or not.

Well, off to bed to finish up this next granny square... I have got to finish this thing this year! I also need to pick some paint out for my room as well. Sounds like a good small outting for Emma and I!

My baby had her first surgery this mornng. The surgery to remove her tonsils and adenoids has been planned
for about 1 ½ months. She did really well before and during the surgery, she actually saw Dr. Welch in pre-op and kept yelling "Hi Dr. Welch!". Now coming out of anesthesia, that was another story, she was scared to death. Not violent, just very very upset
because she had no idea of where she had been. She kept saying "I can't
remember". I felt so bad for her because I hate the disoriented feeling myself.
She must of asked me 10 times if she had her tonsils out. So far today she has had 2 vanilla milkshakes (which I have now mastered the art of wonderful milkshakes!), a small bottle of Gatorade, an orange slush
from Sonic and two cans of room temperature chicken noodle soup. Not too bad.
She is really swollen tonight though. She talks really funny…poor baby!!!

Our next door neighbor's daughter, Jessica, met us up at the hospital. Actually she skipped the first 2 hours of school to be there. I tell you her family is wonderful. Her parents have raised some incredible kids. Kind of funny, because it seems one of them or Truman, the corgi, is at my house sometime during the day. I always joke that I really do not need to have more children because I have them : )

Anyway. they said her
tonsils were really big, of course, but her adenoids were HUGE.. Dr. Welch said
it is amazing she did not have ear infection after ear infection. Good thing
they took them too.

I just lvoed her doctor. He is one of the best ENT docs around here. and just really really nice. He brought Emma a stuffed animal. A
little bear in scrubs. He let her take that animal, her stuffed elephant Lumpy
and her little pillow all to surgery… (okay so Em thought). They give the kids
this cherry medicine that just dopes them up. Then they have them totally out
before they put the IV in that is when they "sneak" the animals off their bed.
Once in recovery, they put all the animals back so the kids wake up with
them…

Much better experience
than I had when I was 6! Oh and they have these suckers, tetracaine suckers. Oh yeah! They numb your throat, mouth, and lips if you lick them. They are $1.20 for 6 and we have a refill. Emma is not too keen on them, but I thoroughly plan to get the refill. I am seeing a need for these if colds and sore throats come along. Hmm, I guess you can tell I tried one : )

OH, but the best was
last night, 10:30 my next door neighbor calls me to tell me her 15 year old
daughter tackled a prowler coming out of our backyard! He got away from her,
but… we called the Sheriff and they are now patrolling the neighborhood. We are
99% sure we know who it is, and he is a peeping tom. He is a married man with
two small children…So the men's neighborhood watch will be back out in force. I
may just call TNT tomorrow because I have thought about a security system
anyway. I also want to buy a stun gun.. I still cannot believe Jordie tackled
the guy. Man – how embarrassing for that guy. Now he knows that we all know we
can take him… The two Mike's that live by me have a solution… and that guy
better watch it. Neither of them are the understanding type when it comes to this type of stuff. Why do complete freaks like that have to exist..
better yet, he is a man who doesn't even think what it would do to his wife and
children if he gets caught…

Emma has finally fallen asleep. She just fought it. I see tomorrow kind of being the "crummy feeling" day. She came home and was just way too peppy... Guess we will have to see.

Oh my gosh, can I tell you how proud I am of that little girl!!! She scored two goals, and had about 4 near misses. She does not have that dead aim and turning the ball down yet... but just give her time. One of her near goals was when they had kick off. Emma stood at the center, back up and kicked and plunk... right left of in the goal. Too fast for the other girls to get time to stop it! It was amazing! ~ this is her aim item. The other near misses were when she kicked a good distance from the goal. But the two she got in the goal were incredible. This is amazing since she started off practicing, falling, and crying -- wanting to go home. I told her we could not. She was there to play and help her team. Then grandpa gave her a pep talk. Now two of the little girls just llloooovvveee Coach Taylor. It is too cute. Number 7, with her shirt tied in back is Lily and Taylor is her boyfriend! Lily and Katie stayed glued to him, well, at least when Katie was not picking up grass. It was funny, my dad asked Katie if her parents need to buy her some grass! She got all giggly.After our game, we left Emma to pick where we went for dinner (uuummmmm, the grown ups wanted El Azteca so I could get some Polo Loco.. incredible marinated chicken with limes and avocado salad), but No.... we went to McDonald's.... okay Asian chicken salad is NOT the same thing, but guess I will live : ) She took a couple of bites and then went and played in the playland, came back, took a couple of more bites, played some more. I think this soccer is really doing her some good. She has a horrible fear of heights and will not go to the top of the playland, and tonight she did! Yeah for soccer and boosting your confidence! ~ next maybe conquering the fear of heights on a horse...hmmmmm...

We went to the Oklahoma Aquarium today. Let me tell you I was really pleasantly surprised. I have been to the Monterrey Bay aquarium and the Dallas World Aquarium, so that is all I have to compare with. Monterrey is incredible and Dallas has manatees (which they alone are worth going, I could have sat forever and just stared at them). My biggest complaint with our aquarium is that the exhibit rooms are, well, square, full of 90 degree angles.. so with every corner there is a bottleneck. It is just crazy. Of course today is the last day of Spring Break around here, so I am sure that does not help with the bottleneck of kids in corners. I have heard they are going to increase the size of our aquarium, which I can see why.

There was so much to see and do. There were things to see that I cannot even remember what they heck they are, but I sure know I would never want to step on them due to the gross out factor.

The "whatever" to the right would be one of those I would not wish to ever step on. It just seems they would be really squishy and icky feeling if you did happen to unexpectedly "drop in" on it. That and the sea cucumbers..

I love starfish, and I really love when children come across them at the aqaurium because you can always expect to hear "It's Patrick". I made some kids giggle with my "No, it's Pat-tar" (you must watch Spongebob to understand that one).

Then there were the Sunshine Starfish. They were HUGE, but really cool as well (no Patrick comments on them though).

They had a beaver family at the aquarium as well. It was so cool to get to see them push around branches etc, trying to build a damn and then diving into their pool to swim. The babies were SO cute.

Then it was on to the jellyfish and other "glowy" things. The picture to the right was not taken with any flash, nor was there light in the tank. These jellyfish light up. it was sooo cool.

More fishes everywhere else. I especially like the parrot fish picture I took. The "toothy" smile just cracked me up. There were all kinds of fish there. The piranhas were not some of Emma's favorite. They actually had a skeleton of one out for the kids to look at and she did not want to hang around and look at it at all! Not that I could blame her.

The best was for the last. They have a coral reef and then another huge tank on the other side. By huge, I mean gigantic. The coolest part of this tank is there is a tunnel all the way through it, so you can walk and have the fish swim all around you. and yes that is a shark swimming above us!

Everything is blooming here in Oklahoma. It is just gorgeous, but man, allergies, pollen, whew.... but it is just wonderful to see all the green with all the redbuds, dogwoods and crape myrtles in full bloom. Just magnificent!

Oh My Gosh!!!!! Tonight was Emma's second soccer game... I had a wonderful conference call that started at 5:00 pm and her game started at 6 pm... so I did not get it to the game until 6:20pm. I get there and GUESS WHAT -- Emma made the one and only goal her team made!

I am sure everyone by now has heard the vet team along with the Jacksons made the very hard decision to euthanasia Barbaro today. He just had too much of a setback over the weekend with his very risky surgery. I know his owners along with Edgar Prado (his jockey) and Michael Matz (his trainer) have a lot of sorrow in their hearts today.

I had so hoped he would pull through this, but I also knew he was fighting some pretty tough odds. I would of hated to be the one to make the decision. You want to see him make it, but you also do not want him to suffer.

I am dreading picking up Emma this evening. She loves horses and hates to see any animal suffer, well, so does her mama. She and I have kept up with this story. So, I see a good cry coming this evening.

Here is to hoping he is running in big green pastures like he did before.. no pain, lots of apples and cute little fillies : )

This is what it looked like at 7am this morning. We had thunderstorms yesterday that turned into freezing rain! I laid in bed and heard in hit my windows in my bedroom (which now have a nice sheet of ice on the top part!).It has now turned into falling ice! The reports that are out and about said it now hurts when it hits your skin. Em is home today, of course, and when I looked at the weather forecast, there is no way I would be insane enough to try to drive to work. We are talking 2+ hours just to drive there, and then I would have to come home, which this afternoon they are predicting at least 6 to 10 inches of snow!!! It is now 21 degrees outside now, but with the wind chill it is 12 degrees.. and dropping. They said it will drop below 19 degrees outside. It is supposed to snow on through the day and night.They said we are going to have thunder snow! Never had that before. The visibility will be greatly diminished, like 1/2 mile or less. The crews putting out salt on the roads said it is sleeting faster than they can put the salt out so the sleet is covering up what they are doing.

I will probably have more later since I have time to sew, etc today. I think for right now I am going to go make some hot chocolate!!! Hopefully there will be no power outages!